Ashanti Region: Chief Justice inaugurates courthouse at Wiamoase

Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah on Thursday inaugurated a courthouse at Wiamoase in the Sekyere South district of the Ashanti Region, with a call on judicial staff to dispense their services professionally.

The inauguration of the new court facility forms part of the 100 courts project being executed by the government.

“I urge the staff to exhibit a high level of professionalism in the discharge of their duties and I will want to remind them that most clients who patronise our services are often physically and emotionally distressed, and they will need comfort and help as they turn to the courts for justice,” Justice Anin-Yeboah said. 

Chief of Staff, Akosua Fremah Osei-Opare who was present during the inauguration, made a call on the Legal Aid Commission to expand its services across communities in the area. 

“Permit me to highlight the need for the legal aid commission which has the mandate of rendering free legal services to spread its arm to communities such as this”, she said.

Efforts to ensure access to justice through court infrastructure in various districts stepped up since last year with the inauguration of newly built court edifices. Of the lot, these included a new High Court at Sowutuom, in the Ga-Central Municipality, a court facility at the Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West Region, a High court with additional responsibility as a child-friendly gender-based violence Circuit court in Nalerigu, the regional capital of the North-East Region 

This year so far has seen the commissioning of a Circuit court at Dansoman in Accra, the Kasoa High Court, two courts at Juaso and Bompata, both in the Asante-Akim Municipality, a Circuit Court at Juaben in the Ashanti Region, a new district court at  Bonwire in the Ejisu Municipality of the Ashanti Region, a circuit court at Kluma Dorfor, the North-Tongu district of the Volta Region, and others. 

The highlight of these perhaps was the inauguration of the new Court of Appeal complex in Kumasi, together with twenty (20) townhouses and a guesthouse to serve as permanent residence for Justices of the Court of Appeal serving the northern sector of the country. 

In March 2022, the government pledged to provide 100 courthouses and accompanying residences for judges and magistrates across the country.

“We have embarked on a project to provide one hundred (100) courthouses and accompanying residences for judges and magistrates around the country. Fifty of them are being built and are near completion, and should be handed over to the Judiciary soon,” President Nana Addo said during a State of the Nation’s Address at the time.